Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 22:21:44 -0400 From: Jim Conner <jconner@enterit.com> To: big-sky@altavista.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetchmail question Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20000426221708.01dc4830@pseudonet.org> In-Reply-To: <39079EA7.3E57A535@cs-dsl-130.datawest.net>
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Put this in your /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ dir (I called mine fetchmail.sh. Make
sure its chmod'ed executable (I think I made mine 700)
(hist 501)# cat /usr/local/etc/rc.d/fetchmail.sh
#!/bin/ksh
if [ -x /usr/local/bin/fetchmail ]
then
/usr/local/bin/fetchmail -d 300
echo " fetchmail (daemon mode)"
else
echo "Couldn't find fetchmail...or its not executable."
fi
And then put this in your $HOME/.fetchmailrc
bash$ cat .fetchmailrc
poll mail proto pop3 user YOUR_POP3_USERNAME pass YOUR_POP3_PASSWORD
Thats it...at boot time it will start the fetchmail as a daemon and
retrieve your email. Change the above value of 300 to 3600 to poll ever hour.
- Jim
At 07:57 PM 4/26/00 -0600, Mark wrote:
>Could someone explain the dizzying array of options outlined in the man
>pages?
>
>Situation:
>I run my on mail server on my dsl connection.
>My isp email account gets occasional email that I would like to get and
>bring it to my local user account. I thought fetchmail would do the job.
>
>In a nutshell, I want to run fetchmail from my rc.conf file so it runs
>all the time, checks for mail every hour, and delivers it to my mailbox
>so all my mail is in one mailbox.
>
>Help? Other options?
>
>p.s. ISP has been very flexible in accomidating me so far but I believe
>if I ask for one more thing, i.e. to forward the mail, it will
>completely wipe away my welcome.
>
>
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